Ben Affleck Admits He Was Behind Deflategate

Along with John Krasinski, Matt Damon, and some other celebs.

For the last two weeks, deflategate—that sports scandal involving Tom Brady and the Patriots maybe or maybe not letting air out of footballs in the locker room during the AFC Championship game—has generated tons of talk (and a lot of Brady hate). But now many claiming that they, not Brady, were behind the deflating have come forward. John Krasinski, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck are among them.

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These three, along with some other celebrities, pretended to be Bostonians accepting responsibility for deflategate onJimmy Kimmel Live! last night. In the four-minute segment, they give crazy explanations for why they did it (saving people was a running theme) in great fake Boston accents. They also defend Brady because, as Krasinski put it, "Tom Brady had nothing to do with this because he was too busy being awesome."